Music Industry News

A Love Fest With Chico Hamilton

Source: All About Jazz

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Realia Music Inc. Acquires International Indie Music Catalogues

Source: All About Jazz

VANCOUVER, BC: The largest wholly independent online music licensing agency, Realia Music Inc. (www.realiamusic.com) has acquired hundreds of new titles in three non-exclusive deals.

The pre-cleared titles are from the music catalogues of Pravda USA (Chicago), audio-origin (New Zealand) and DGB Records (Seattle) have been added to the online catalogue in full length mp3 format for indie-visualists to access with the same one-stop sourcing to licensing process that makes Realia Music unique and the best deal for independents (both musicians ...

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Latin Jazz Images in NYC

Source: All About Jazz

Award winning photographer Enid Farber captured some images of musician Bobby Ramirez performing a Jazz concert at the Triad Theater in New York City on September 25th, 2002. Ramirez was accompanied by bassist Harvie S, pianist Daniel Kelly and drummer Vince Cherico. Ms. Farber was recently honored for “Excellence in Photography" and “ Best Photo of the Year" at the 2002 Jazz Journalist Association Awards Ceremony.

The set included music from the repertoire of pianist Bill Evans' “Waltz For Debby", ...

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Verve And Blue Note Join Together To Create "The Definitive Series"

Source: All About Jazz

Historical union of jazz's biggest labels brings forth wholly encompassing collections

The Verve Music Group and Blue Note Records have joined together to launch The Definitive Series which honors the classic artists of jazz with collections that span the archives of both label groups. This is the first time in history that the two labels have worked together on a project of this nature, pooling their archives to create complete documents of these jazz legends' talents. Each of the 14 ...

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ScoGo Guitars Introduces The Lizard: A Unique, Custom-Hand-Crafted, Solid Body Electric Guitar

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Pianist Frank Hewitt In Hospital

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Jazz Artist's Life Experiences As Single Mother Influences Her Music

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James Newton Loses to Beastie Boys: Amicus Support Requested!

Source: All About Jazz

From James Newton (renowned jazz musician)

For the last two years I have been involved in a suit because the Beastie Boys sampled a part of my composition “Choir" and did not contact me for permission. They did not change in any way what they sampled from “Choir". It begins with the sampled six and a half seconds and loops in the song over forty times. “Pass the Mic'" has appeared in CD, MP3, LP, and DVD formats.

The law ...

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